Sche Daniel wrote:
> Skeets schrieb:
> > i'm sure this is easy, but i've gone through Pickaxe's string methods,
> > searched the web and searched the groups, and i can't figure out how to
> > do this in Ruby.
> >
> > i grep a file and it returns the following string:
> >
> > #ip 127.0.0.1
> >
> > i now want to get rid of "#ip" so i can then strip the remaining string
> > to get rid of spaces.
> >
> > however, i can't find out how to delete the 3 leftmost characters - in
> > this case "#ip".
> >
> > thanks for any tips to get this done - i would think it is a matter of
> > just knowing the correct method.
> >
>
> irb(main):022:0> "abcdeg".sub(/.../, "")
> => "deg"
> irb(main):023:0> "abcdeg"[3..-1]
> => "deg"
> irb(main):024:0>
>
> hth, Daniel

thanks everyone - this whole discussion has been enlightening for this
newb.